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Materializing the “Eternal French Connexion” Introduction: Materializing the “Eternal French Connexion” Véronique Lane THE IMAGES HAVE BEEN FAMILIAR around the world for more than fifty years: a shy Jack Kerouac standing beside road-travelling companion Neal Cassady; Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky sitting back to back on a bench in Paris, smiling brightly; William Burroughs in trench coat and fedora outstaring the camera with sinister poker face. Sustained by innumerable biographies, exhibitions, and film adaptations, such iconic images of the first major Beat writers as travellers and border-crossers remain indelible in the popular imagination, persisting as nostalgic snapshots of countercultural rebels from a black-and-white past when writers had the power to move an entire generation. The enduring popularity of the Beats as photogenic iconoclasts has created a wider public interest than in perhaps any other area of literature. But it also deterred academic scholarship for decades and has led to a mismatch between the shallow, seductive imagery of hip Americana in mass circulation and the picture now constructed in the critical field. Over the past two decades, Beat Studies has come of age: the days of fanzines, hagiography, sociology, and broad cultural history, when discussion focused largely on jazz or drugs and a trilogy of famous writers and their holy texts – Ginsberg’s “Howl” (1956), Kerouac’s On the Road (1957), Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1959) – are long gone. Beat Studies today is far broader and richer, and has decentered itself as it has expanded: sensitized to issues of race, gender, sexuality, and social justice, while attentive to work in multiple media, it now produces book-length studies ranging from Beat religion and philosophy to Beat cinema and 2 theatre. With the appearance of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2016), it now also bears the “imprimatur of the academy,” as Steven Belletto, the volume’s editor, notes with self- conscious irony.1 At least in the United States, Beat Studies is increasingly in rather than out of step with mainstream academia. This special issue of L’Esprit Créateur therefore appears at a moment of sustained academic expansion. It takes part in a reorientation of the field that one of its new leading scholars, Jimmy Fazzino, dates specifically from 2004, when Reconstructing the Beats, a collection of essays edited by Jennie Skerl, challenged the “adulatory mythography” of earlier criticism.2 2004 was also the year the Beat Studies Association formed, which by 2012 was producing an annual journal dedicated to promoting the legitimization of the field and “the integration of Beat scholarship into canonical U.S. literary critical discourses.”3 The present special issue on “French and Beat Literatures: A History of Mutual Appropriation, Reception, and Translation” takes up a position within this trajectory but, most distinctly, attempts to shift the field’s dominant critical paradigm beyond its traditionally American-centric focus and toward more text-based approaches. One-way traffic and two solitudes Since Reconstructing the Beats, the expanded panoramic embrace of Beat Studies beyond the borders of the United States has been enhanced through a series of ambitious publications, chiefly: The Transnational Beat Generation (2012), edited by Jennie Skerl and Nancy Grace; Jimmy Fazzino’s World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (2016); the two dozen essays of “Global Beat Studies,” the special issue edited by Oliver Harris and Polina Mackay for Comparative Literature and Culture (2016); and The Routledge 3 Handbook of International Beat Literature edited by A. Robert Lee (2018). While this special issue of L’Esprit Créateur shares with these and other recent studies a desire to connect Beat literature with non-US national literatures, to explore how the American Beat writers shaped and were shaped by work from other cultures, the point of origin, methodology, and aims of the essays collected here are distinct from most of the work represented by the above titles, much of which originated from within the field of American Studies. The following articles essays emerge, in contrast, from a European tradition of comparative literary studies and significantly arose out of “Paris Interzone: The Transcultural Beat Generation,” the sixth annual conference of the European Beat Studies Network held at the University of Chicago in Paris.4 The 2017 event featured close to a hundred talks and multimedia performances given by scholars from around the world and gave a particular shape to the current essays insofar as they have not been defined, like Transnational American Studies, as an essentially American project. The subtitle of Fazzino’s book, The Worlding of U.S. Literature, can be seen as quite ambiguous in this respect, as it potentially lays claim to the universalizing logic it otherwise helps to deconstruct. Certainly, within an Americanist framework, comparisons across cultures still tend to reinforce an American point of view, as in the opening assertion of John Tytell’s Beat Transnationalism (2017): “William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg felt that they needed to leave their own culture in order to see it more clearly.”5 The transnational aspect of Beat literature in such an approach involves border crossing, but it remains one-way traffic. While other internal contradictions within transnational studies of Beat literature have been identified, most cogently by Todd Tietchen,6 the pragmatic risk here is that the all-encompassing embrace can only end up sacrificing material depth and detail for the sake of inclusivity and breadth. Thus, The Routledge 4 Handbook of International Beat Literature achieves an impressive diversity of excellent essays but is framed loosely in terms of addressing “Beat literature and culture, or its equivalence,” “Beat energies” and “Beat or Beat-like expression.”7 While Grace and Skerl rightly forecast the transnational as “a fertile turn for Beat Studies,”8 the present articles attempt to nuance its application. Taking a more precise approach by narrowing its comparative focus, the issue has a double aim stressed by its title, “French and Beat Literatures,” and by its fitting bilingual venue, L’Esprit Créateur. First, the histories traced here are indeed more mutual: the reciprocal impact of French and Beat literatures is examined in articles written in French as well as in English, and by scholars working within Francophone and Anglophone critical traditions or at their intersection. Second, the approaches taken to analyze these histories are more material, more concerned to examine texts than describe contexts. In taking the text itself as the site of reciprocal cultural appropriations, the following essays have something in common with recent studies such as Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition, recently edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph Rosen,9 or the forthcoming special issue of Humanities edited by Hassan Melehy, “Beat Generation Writers as Readers of World Literature,” which in different ways construct textual genealogies of works by Beat authors, instead of historicizing their lives as travellers. The text-centered dialogue embodied by the following articles, however, is of course not global but emphatically bicultural. This special issue seeks very specifically to demonstrate the material presence of French literature within the works of known and lesser-known Beat writers, as well as to reassess the reception and impact of Beat literature within French culture, by paying close attention to the complex processes through which Beat texts were edited, adapted, and translated into French. 5 At first sight, it might seem an old story, because there is nothing new about the Beat writers’ “eternal French connexion,” to quote translator and adaptor Claude Pélieu.10 That Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Burroughs, and Gregory Corso stayed at the so-called Beat Hotel in the Latin Quarter during the late 1950s and early 1960s has been one of the most familiar chapters in Beat cultural history, generating its own book-length study, The Beat Hotel by Barry Miles (2000).11 Paris has long been singled out as the one non-US point of reference on the Beat map, the French capital making up the trio of cities named in the subtitles of such books as James Campbell’s This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris (2001) and the catalog of the Centre Georges Pompidou’s exhibition, Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris (2016).12 The connection between Beat and French literatures has thus remained based in biography. It has generally been constructed through narratives of bohemians abroad and their real-life encounters with French writers, such as Burroughs visiting Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Meudon or Corso larking around with Marcel Duchamp at a Paris party, and to analyses of apparently simple acts of homage such as Ginsberg’s poem “At Apollinaire’s Grave.” Focusing on the allure of identities from Artaud the madman to Rimbaud the rebel, and on texts written by the Beats in the French capital, however, all too often amounts to adding icons to icons. As I have argued in The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation (2017), this approach enables broad discussion of “influence,” instead of forcing more exact attention to working methods of textual appropriation, transformation, and translation. Modern French literature was the “fundamental intertext” that helped form the original Beat circle in mid-1940s New York, long before Burroughs and Ginsberg set foot in Paris, and it materially sustained their œuvres as well as Kerouac’s for decades.13 The driving force behind this issue is hence the conviction that bicultural and genealogical approaches are 6 essential to any study of the Beats as transnational writers, because these same approaches were so central to the development of Beat literature in the first place. If Beat writers actively bridged cultures in their texts, making appropriations across national literatures, criticism needs to do likewise in order to understand how they worked; and yet, with very few exceptions, Anglophone and Francophone scholarship has remained two solitudes.
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